I recently took the oppertunity of a light snowfall to photograph my icebergs in a more recognized setting for a block of ice and to see what happened with this change of context. Ive always enjoyed the dialogues we strike up when adding to a specific site and have always had somewhat of an issue with showing work in a gallery space and losing this level to the work. In this case the chosen sites were informed by the object (the iceberg), an attempt to seduce the idea that what we are presented with is actually occuring. These experiments also brought me around to the idea of what displaying in photographs can bring to my work on both conceptual and technical levels. A photograph is a record of an actual event and we all know how the saying goes 'the camera never lies' but we also know this is not the case. A photograph can add a certain level of control to what infomation is communicated and can tweak the truth through this emphasisation.
Monday, 13 April 2009
I recently took the oppertunity of a light snowfall to photograph my icebergs in a more recognized setting for a block of ice and to see what happened with this change of context. Ive always enjoyed the dialogues we strike up when adding to a specific site and have always had somewhat of an issue with showing work in a gallery space and losing this level to the work. In this case the chosen sites were informed by the object (the iceberg), an attempt to seduce the idea that what we are presented with is actually occuring. These experiments also brought me around to the idea of what displaying in photographs can bring to my work on both conceptual and technical levels. A photograph is a record of an actual event and we all know how the saying goes 'the camera never lies' but we also know this is not the case. A photograph can add a certain level of control to what infomation is communicated and can tweak the truth through this emphasisation.
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